> --- In HeroWars_at_y..., "ian_hammond_cooper"
<ian_hammond_cooper_at_y...> wrote:
> > stefan wrote:
> > > to all [?:)] published RQ books, I still find it hard to
imagine the
> > most basic things about what life in Sartar is all about.<
> >
> > Think landlocked Vikings (or Saxons) for everyday details. I
still
> > recommend 'How Would I survive as a Viking'.
> >
> > Its a crude tool, but effective.
> >
> > Ian Cooper
>
> thanks for the hint, though I doubt I can find a translated one
here in germany :(
> but after all, it's not the daily *mundane* life I find hard to
imagine - it's the combination of viking style life AND real
working/existing magic/spirits/gods, which differs a lot from, for
instance, RW vikings.
> at least, I think so.
But not very different at all from the way the vikings believed
the world was, or the way they depicted their world in various
legends and sagas. Beowulf, for example.
RQ3 Vikings was pretty good in this respect. It also had material
on scandanavian moots, travell, law, etc.
Simon Hibbs